Ministers Mobilize To Opposae Pot Question

[Jim Finnel]

A group of Boston religious leaders is sending a letter to clergy statewide urging them to ask their congregations to help defeat a ballot question that if approved would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.

Question 2 would make possession of an ounce or less of marijuana a civil rather than criminal offense.

The Boston Globe rports that the letter from the Boston TenPoint Coalition says passage of the measure would promote drug use and lead to more violance.

The state's district attorneys, police chiefs, Gov. Deval Patrick and other top officials oppose the measure.

Supporters say it would reduce the burden on the criminal justice system and spare people from a criminal record that could cost them jobs, college aid and other benefits.


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[Jim Finnel]

they need to do some re-reading of their book . . .

Gen 1:29-31
And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

"Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so.

Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.


Mat 15:7-19
"Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:

'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.

And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"

When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear and understand:

"Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."

Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"

But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

"Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

Then Peter answered and said to Him, "Explain this parable to us."

So Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?

"Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?

"But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.

"For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

 

[GeorgiaSmoker]

It sure be nice if Georgia did something like that... itd save me alot of trouble

 

[hood1]

Why do these followers of Christ feel the need to put there fellow humans in jail for making and educated adult decision for themselves? I was born without that gene and thank whoever for that. Have they never heard live and let live. We will never be like them as hard as they fight and as many as they can put in jail it will not work. You cannot dictate morality but that is what they strive to do to us. We will never conform to a law that was born from racism is perpetuated by greed and supported by lies. Why don't you people do some reading and hug a hippie we don't bite....